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The Mendham Collection was assembled by the Anglican clergyman Joseph Mendham (1769-1856) and contains mostly fifteenth and sixteenth century books relating to the dawn of the Reformation, particularly relating to England.

There are early Bible printings (including Greek and polyglot versions), rare liturgical texts, the first publications of the Church of England, and a substantial collection of the Catholic Church’s notorious Index of Prohibited Books. Also included are some early pilgrim’s guides to Rome, the Mirabilia Romaeand a group of early sixteenth-century English bindings, one of which (Duranti’s Rationale) was originally in the library of St Cuthbert’s Cathedral Priory, Durham.